A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.340 — Artists challenge us to imagine a more optimistic world ⊗ How AI uncovers new ways to tackle difficult diseases ⊗ Libraries positively impact community health and well-being
No.339 — Did OpenAI just solve abstract reasoning? ⊗ Kind and wicked learning environments ⊗ Foresight Timeline ⊗ DeepSeek outpaces tech giants
No.338 — Without you, Patchwork is nothing ⊗ The rise of frictionless conformity ⊗ Science journalism becomes plain old journalism ⊗ Deliberate oxymorons ⊗ Trespassing for the Common Good
Dispatch — From Anhedonia to the Whisky War, 24 things I learned this year. Shamelessly copying Tom Whitwell’s 52 things and falling short.
No.337 — The alchemy that powers the modern world ⊗ Building A Circular Future ⊗ Open Source AI year in review 2024
No.336 — Rhizomatic thinking to unlock new ideas ⊗ USV built an AI brain ⊗ Trippy worm ooze ⊗ A new golden age of discovery
No.335 — Intertextuality ⊗ Low-carbon tech needs much fewer materials ⊗ You exist in the long context ⊗ Plastic-eating insect discovered
No.334 — Amulets against the spirits of the age ⊗ On distortion ⊗ Build your own commissioner ⊗ Liquid AI
No.333 — With AI, the future of Augmented Reality is in your ears ⊗ Why every company needs a futurist-in-residence ⊗ AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations ⊗ Bringing life to L.A.’s infrastructure
No.332 — AI’s “human in the loop” isn’t ⊗ I’m running out of ways to explain how bad this is ⊗ Jules Verne’s technocratic worldmaking
No.331 — Da Vinci’s boundless curiosity ⊗ Gods, interns, and cogs ⊗ Risks on the horizon ⊗ Australia’s green revolution in urban spaces
No.330 — The power of “radical optimism” ⊗ Library of Possibilities ⊗ The Veridica Trade ⊗ The greening of Antarctica
No.329 — It feels like 2004 again ⊗ Three Future Frames ⊗ What is futures literacy ⊗ Cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities ⊗ Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year
